The Alpha King's Hated Omega

Demi's pov

The whip cracked against my bare back, an excruciating pain cascaded through me.

I pressed my lips close forcing back the agonizing whimper from the burning sensation on my palms and knees.

The heat from the hot coals I was atop burned my skin as Nina repeatedly brought the whip down on me, bruising my back greater than it was already.

I couldn't cry out for help nor could I show any sign of pain as it would increase my punishment and you might wonder what punishment could be worse than this.

A punishment worse than this would be seeing my baby brother in this exact position as I am because I defied their orders.

And currently I could hear his cries as he screamed, rolling on the ground in attempts to get to me but he was being held back by the guards who were busy laughing at his misery.

Demi, I am sorry, He mindlinked me and I looked up to make eye contact with him. A tear slid from my eye down my cheek as I could see the regret in his eyes as brown as mine, I would never eat again.

It's not your fault Haris, I comforted him and just then the whip landed on my back again and I bit my lip muffling the scream that threatened to come out, you were just hungry, it's not your fault.

"Tell him to stop yelling!" Nina barked at me as she circled me and I knew she was giving me a look of appraisal marveling at the artwork of wounds she had inflicted as this was her favorite pastime , "That fat pig ate my pet's food and he has the nerve to cry!"

A tear slipped down my cheek again as the hotness of the coals met my skin producing a hissing sound as the embers kissed my skin.

It wasn't bread, meat or crackers.

My brother was so hungry that he ate food from a dog's bowl and I was being punished for it. I felt like a failure and the only thing I wanted was to die at the moment.

I could not protect him nor fend for him, I could only feed him with scraps of what was given to me after slaving in the kitchen. He was so weak that his wolf hadn't surfaced at his age and most grievous of all, I am sure my parents would be ashamed in their graves.

My heart broke at the intensity of the situation, dog food!

The whip landed again and Haris called out my name making me yell in anguish breaking the rule of not making a sound during punishment.

I looked up in fear at the realization of what I had just done.

My eyes met with Nina's and her lips turned up in a devilish smirk, I could see the gleam in her eyes as we both heard his footsteps which we always heard any moment I screamed.

I could smell him, his appealing scent no matter how much I tried to resist filled my senses and my wolf whimpered in need of him.

He's coming, Her tone was sad as she notified me, Maybe he would take pity on us this time.

She always had hope and it annoyed me but I couldn't blame her.

Who wouldn't want to be loved and cherished? Who wouldn't want to experience the love and warmth that came from the one designated for you by fate and who wouldn't want an attractive golden boy-loving partner for a mate?

The door to my designated tutored room opened and I whimpered immediately after he entered and his scent filled the room.

"Mate." I Turned looking up at him to hold his gaze but Nina's palm immediately met with my cheek, slapping me so hard that I fell against the coals on my wounded skin and I screamed out again as the pain was too much to bear as my skin burnt with sharp stings.

"Pathetic." Logan, the Alpha of our pack and my mate groaned like he was in pain from seeing me, "Why did you have to scream and disturb my meeting?!"

"You didn't have to come down my love. I was handling her just fine." I watched as Nina walked up to him and I returned to my former position on the coals before I was told that moving would attract more punishment.

I saw her place a hand on his chest leaning towards him and his hand went to her waist drawing her close to him.

He hugged her close, dropping his face to her neck sniffing in her perfect scent before moving back to her face and giving her a deep kiss.

I cringed as she let out an expression of pleasure from kissing my mate.

A dull ache gnawed through me, it was a pain greater than what I had felt before and the reason why I was feeling this pain was because he never let me reject him.

He rejected me but forbade me from accepting his rejection as that would bring his powers down so any time he got physical with Nina, I could feel the pain.

My heart tore each time I saw him with Nina.

He always takes her out on dates, gets her flowers, and introduces her to dignitaries. He showered her with love, pampered her, and designated me to be her slave.

It should be me cozying up to him like that.

It should be me he kisses and buys flowers, it should be me who gets to hold his hand and who he spends his nights with but it wasn't me.

It was her, it was her all along.

From the moment I had a crush on him while I was younger to find out that he was my mate to being maltreated while hoping in my heart that he would have a change of heart and finally accept me someday.

You call me hopeless yet you wish for him, Harlyn my wolf stated with a dry chuckle.

And I couldn't agree with her less, I was truly hopeless, waiting for the day that Logan gets to claim me as his and relieve me from this torment.

"Get up!" Nina screamed at me the moment she pulled away from Logan, "And get out of my sight. I can't bear your stench anymore."

How wouldn't I stink when I am forbidden from bathing and I eat rotten food and live in poor conditions?!

I wanted to clap back but I knew that would bring more trouble, "Thank you, mistress." I said before standing up and I walked on the hot coals as I exited as she always instructed.

The moment my feet touched the bare ground I fell down with a painful sigh, gritting in pain from the burning of my wounds and the searing discomfort I felt all over my body.

"Get a cup of coffee ready to my office in ten minutes,"

Logan pronounced not even glancing my way as he walked off with Nina.

The other guards holding my brother let go of him and followed suit leaving just him and I.

"Haris." I croaked stretching my hand out to him as he hurriedly got up from the ground and rushed to grab my clothes.

"Demi, I am sorry." He ran to me handing over the gown and I nodded as he apologized over and over again, "I am sorry Demi."

"It's not your fault, she would have tortured me even if you did nothing, It's not your fault."

"I was so hungry, I am sorry." He apologized again and I hugged him close as he sniveled and I couldn't help the tears that fell from my eyes.

He didn't deserve this.

He was just 6.

I have failed as his sister.

"It's okay Haris." I rubbed his hair playing with the strands as I rocked him to stop crying, "You deserve better than this, I would never fault you for being hungry, you are my baby."

"No." He shook his head while still crying, "I am just a fat stuffed pig and I stink, that's why no one wants to play with me."

"I stink too Haris and you are not what you called yourself."

"The other kids call me that."

I pulled him gently away from me and cradled his face in my palms,

"You are my cute chubby angel."

My fingers pinched his cheeks lightly and he gave me the cutest smile with missing teeth, "There you go and you have the most beautiful smile."

"And you too." He pulled me in a hug, "And you give the best hugs Demi."

I nodded rubbing his back as he hugged me and we stayed in that position for a while before Logan's terrifying growl invaded my mind and I shivered in fear pulling away from Haris.

He had asked me to get coffee for him in ten minutes and I had spent a while here bonding with my brother.

I scampered to my feet ignoring the injuries and quickly told Haris to go wait for me elsewhere as I didn't want him to be at Logan's mercy while I rushed out to make the coffee praying that me disobeying him like this and being late wasn't going to cost me my full hand because the last time this happened, he had chopped off a part of my pinky on my right hand and forced Haris to eat it which had marked the most traumatizing day in my baby brother's life.

Demi's pov

I had the coffee ready as soon as I could and all the while I was at it, I couldn't help but shudder all through as I could feel the anger radiating from him through the flicker of bond we shared.

I took the coffee to his office, steadying my trembling hands as I knocked, and the moment I heard him grunt for me to come in.

I wrapped my fingers around the door handle, twisted it, and gently pushed at the door letting myself in before closing it behind me.

I stood there for a moment watching him, transfixed at how amazing he looked.

He had blonde hair that was thick and lush with dark eyes that always had me captivated even if he only ever showed anger through them towards me all the time.

His head was bent over the table and he was looking at some papers and I swallowed hard at the thought of if he had accepted me.

I would have been bringing him coffee and he would welcome me with a warm smile. He would hug me like he does with Nina and drop kisses on my forehead.

"What are you standing there for?!" He barked jolting me from my reverie and I hurriedly went to his table and dropped the coffee mug on it while mumbling an apology.

He moved his hand to the cup, picked it up, and raised it to bring it to his lips and almost immediately before I could be warned, he turned the cup flinging its contents on my face.

I screamed in agony as the hot liquid blinded me scalding my skin. I fell to the ground while rubbing my face with my palms trying to calm the burning sensation. I cried out at the unbearable heat and the harsh stings on my skin. I couldn't even open my eyes.

"I told you I always want my coffee at room temperature!" I could hear his footsteps as he walked towards me while I tried to roll away, "Were you planning on burning my tongue?"

"I am sorry Alpha." I sniffed with tears rolling down my cheeks as I tried to stand up, "You wanted it immediately and-"

I stopped talking the moment I heard the clinking of metal and I squinted to see that he was removing his belt, "No!" I shook my head in despair trying to get away from him, "No, please."

"Shut the hell up before I change my mind and call the guards to take turns with you!"

I went mute in that instant and shook my head.

I knew that I couldn't take any more whippings today but I rather endure that than have the guards use me as I was still recovering and having nightmares from the last experience.

"Logan," I called his name the moment he whipped the belt free of his waist and he turned to me wide-eyed at the use of his name.

A look of shock morphed on his face as his eyes narrowed in on me presenting a deathly stare.

"What did you just call me?"

"Mate." I begged crawling towards him with my hands outstretched and I grabbed onto his leg holding at the fabric of his trousers, "Please Logan, accept or reject me. I can't do this anymore."

I looked up to see his eyes soften for a moment and he bent down to my level on the ground. I pulled back a bit wondering if he had a change of mind and he took my hand in his while I watched him in awe which was quickly wiped off as he twisted my wrist, breaking it.

I screamed.

I screamed so loud as he did the same for a second hand before kicking me aside so hard that I hit my back against the wall.

"You are a miserable pathetic omega." He said taking slow steps towards me as I writhed on the ground, "You stink! You are worthless! You are ugly and useless! You look like a corpse, how dare you address me with my first name?! How dare you hold me?! And how dare you think of me even accepting you?!"

He bent down before me and he grabbed my hair pulling my head back before slamming my face against the ground and I heard my nose crack, I felt the warm red liquid pooling gently at my nostrils.

"Stupid bitch!"

He slammed my face repeatedly against the floor, cursing as he did with his fingers tightening in my hair to strengthen his hold as he bashed my face in.

My bones cracked hear my bones cracks as he continued his assault, I could feel my skin bruising, and breaking as he hit my face against the floor repeatedly while throwing and hurling curse words at me.

By the time he released me, I couldn't feel my face, I couldn't feel myself as well.

I could hear him panting hard, he was out of breath yet I could still hear him bend to pick up his belt.

"I would make you regret why your suicide attempt didn't work the day I rejected you!"

As his words boomed across the room, I choked on my tears remembering that very day and how I had traced his scent to his room to see him mating with Nina before he cursed me out and he descended on me just like he did now, raining blows and belt lashes wherever it was he could find.

I couldn't keep back from yelling.

I shrieked, wailed, and shrieked again till I could hear tiny fists pounding at the door begging him to release me.

I could hear my brother's cries as I cried and I couldn't even assure him this time that it would be okay so I cried, I cried with him as Logan inflicted pain on me.

It didn't take time for me to hear the thudding of footsteps when he bellowed for the soldiers and soon I was hoisted in arms that I knew would soon hold me down as they forced my legs open.

I could hear their screams and curses as they talked of how bad I stunk even when they would still force me to lay with them and most importantly I could hear Harris's cries as he ran after them to follow me but they kicked him aside and took me away instead.

We got to the barn in no time, I was thrown on the hay, the dried straw scratching against my skin. The smell of horses and manure tickled my bleeding nostrils and one of them made a comment of how the barn smelt better than I did.

I closed my eyes when I heard laughter and zippers knowing what was to come.

I didn't think to fight or open my eyes when my arms were held down as if I could ever dream of fighting them off no did I resist when I felt my clothes being shifted and my legs being forced open and the force resurfaced the pain I felt from the former ordeal of the previous days.

And I didn't fight or scream when the first man started and I felt his breath on me as he used me, punishing me with painful strokes and his fingers clawed at my neck with his grunts filling my ear.

I didn't fight back, instead, I dreamt.

I escaped into my imagination and dreamt of another world where I was safe and happy.

A world with a big castle with enough food for Haris and me. A world where we didn't have to be restricted from bathing and where I wasn't whipped every other day

A world where Haris and I were happy.

And while I escaped in my dreams, I could feel the strength I had left leaving my body as the third man came on.

I could hear the distant cries of my brother as I experienced light headedness and the last thing I felt was before turned over before I gave up and gave in to darkness.

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The next thing I felt were tiny arms wrapped around me with tears wetting my skin and I opened my eyes to Haris attached to me crying. I could see that my gown was already in place and it was definitely by him, the sky was already dark indicating that it was night and there was eerie silence everywhere that was disturbed by Haris's quiet sobs.

"What time is it Haris?" I croaked through my cracked voice indicating that my throat was dry and I wondered for how long I had been out.

"It's midnight." He raised his head wiping his face with his palms as he saw that I was awake, "Everyone is asleep."

"Good." I groaned trying to sit up but my legs ached and burned and I could feel dried blood between them, "Have you had anything to eat?"

He shook his head and I tried to move my hand to touch him but I remembered from the pain I felt that my wrists had been broken and it would take a while for them to heal.

"Sis."

"Hmm?"

"Are you okay?"

I heaved at that single question of his and my heart was heavy but I couldn't cry, if I did then he would and he was already stressed throughout today.

"I will be fine Haris, we will both be fine."

"Are we spending the night here?"

"Mhm mhm."

At my response, he climbed the hay curling closer to me and I moved bringing him closer with the little strength I had left.

When his skin touched mine, I could feel that he had a high temperature and I knew what that meant which caused panic surging within me.

It meant his sickness was resurfacing and it always did once in a while. It had been happening since he was born and I didn't know what to do and it wasn't like I had money to treat him.

It always started with him running temperature and then falling into a high fever coughing out and vomiting blood followed by him fainting periodically.

I didn't know what to do or whom to ask for help and I knew there was a cure somewhere just that I couldn't get a hold of it so when he was sick like that, I focused on nursing him back and praying that he wouldn't die.

And tonight, it was happening again but with my state and broken wrists, I knew I couldn't do that and so I laid there with him praying silently that this time, the symptoms would be mild even as we were sleeping on the hay outside in the cold.

Demi's pov

My broken wrists were healing while Harris's health was ailing and I had nothing more to do than to cry which is what I have done over the past years.

Cry, cry, and cry again without thinking of a solution to my issues and there was no solution in sight even if I tried to think.

I couldn't run away, where would I run to? Neither could I work to gain money for his health, where would I work? I was a designated slave here.

I was a mere pack slave, a weak omega who went through the same process of torture every day of her life while trying to fend for her brother and I feared dearly that this is what things would be like for us for the rest of our lives.

I winced as the blisters on my palms ached when I held onto the brush to scrub the grounds, they burned with a fiery intensity that heightened my pain.

My heart wasn't where I was at the moment, it was where Haris was in our room and I wondered and worried about his condition since I wasn't there to check up on him.

I knew he'd be tossing and turning now in discomfort.

I could only wipe him down with a wet hot cloth in the morning when his symptoms got worse which was what I did all the time and while I did that, I prayed hard that he would be okay like I always did each time he got this sick.

I couldn't spend much time with him like I would love to because I had to scrub the halls and meeting rooms for Logan was receiving guests and he needed things to be put in place.

It was a very special guest he had stated while warning me not to mess this up so contrary to my wishes, I had to abandon Haris and do Logan's bidding.

My hands were sore and tender, my joints felt terrible like they were inflammed and my back ached.

My wrists weren't completely healed and I had a terrible headache but I went on scrubbing with all my might not wanting to incur their wrath because I was hoping not to be beat today which was highly impossible but a girl could hope.

As I scrubbed the ground I could hear chatter and high-pitched laughter followed by the clicking soles of boots against the tiles.

I looked up to see Nina and her friends walking into the hall with their riding attire, they had just finished from outside and as they waltzed into the place, the mud from their shoes stained the spots which they stepped on, on places where I had cleaned completely.

I frowned and waited for them to reach me and when they did, I rose to my feet standing before them so they would notice me.

"What's that smell?" One of the girls asked putting her hand over her nose and she waved her wrist in a motion that indicated that she was blowing the air.

"Smells like corpses." Another added and they all burst into laughter jeering at me as I stood before them waiting for their conversation to be over.

"And why are you standing before me like that?" Nina asked raising a brow at me.

"You should have taken the other hall."

"What?"

"I am cleaning and you walked in staining the floor with your muddy shoes."

Nina's eyes narrowed into slits as she glared at me with her girls but I didn't care. I had to leave my sick brother to scrub the halls and I was almost done only for them to come in and mess everything up.

"Repeat it."

"I said." I moved closer to her and almost laughed when she backed away from my stench, "You stained the grounds with your m-"

I never got to get my words out in full as her palm met with my cheek slapping me so hard that my head swung to the other side from the force. A dull ache began to spread in the spot and I could feel the skin redden.

"How dare you?!" She barked at me going to drag my hair and then she stopped when one of the girls moved and it looked like they were mindlinking, "Girls! Show her what you can do with your muddy boots!" She changed her mind on grabbing me and stepped back with a delightful smirk.

And right there, I watched as they stomped around the hall marring everywhere I had cleaned and Nina kicked the pail of water over and its content spilled all over the ground.

"Guess what?" She smirked at me, "You have to start all over again and I can tell you that My dear Logan wouldn't be pleased."

I didn't say a word, I stood in regret and self-reproach wondering why I even bothered standing up for myself when it never ended well.

They walked away resuming their loud chatter while I surveyed the hall again looking at the damage done by them and how I had to start again from the beginning.

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After terrible long hours and Logan barking at me without hitting me which was weird. I finally finished all the work I was to do and rushed to check up on Haris and after I did that I had to leave immediately to follow one of Logan's strange orders.

It was a very very strange order.

He had required me to take a bath and gave me decent clothes to put on after.

Maybe he's taking us on a date, My wolf said as I scrubbed myself with the sponge and soap that came with the dress, he didn't even hit us today.

Maybe, I agreed with her thinking of the possibilities and a part of me hoped that maybe he was actually going to take us out. Maybe he was having a rethink on the whole rejection and he finally wanted to accept me.

I smiled to myself and scrubbed harder despite knowing that it wouldn't rub off my stench but I had to try.

I got dirt out of my nails and rinsed my body before getting out of the bathroom and going to dress up.

It was a decent gown and by the time I was ready I checked up on Haris again to see that his condition was better and with a satisfied nod I left him to go see what Logan wanted before he began barking my name again.

I got to where he asked me to wait and I stood at the door waiting for me to tell him to enter and when he did by yelling my name I obeyed quietly.

It was one of the parlors in the pack house and I got in to see him seated on one of the chairs with a man opposite him.

I didn't look at the man as I smelt that he wasn't one of us and his scent was suspicious. It didn't smell like he even belonged to a pack.

"This is her." Logan pointed at me and I heard the man hum in approval before feeling his eyes all over me, "She's perfect for the job, isn't she?"

Job?

"Turn around." The man spoke suddenly and I froze in my spot still not looking at the man and not obeying his command either.

"Do as he says!" At Logan's words, I did exactly as he requested.

I gave a three sixty with my head held up high using the opportunity to look at the man. He looked identical to Logan and one could mistake them for brothers even with the man having brown hair in contrast to Logan's blonde.

"Not bad, if you don't mind the stench." The man joked before erupting in laughter and Logan joined in.

A date right? I asked my wolf with sarcasm, all hopes in me deflating as I felt stupid for hoping that he would change.

"So when does she leave?"

"Soon." Logan answered, "As soon as we can send her off."

"Where am I going?" I asked without caution.

"Don't speak unless spoken to!" He frowned at me and I went mute again.

"Have it easy on the girl and explain to her."

"Your brother is sick." Logan began, "And you are obviously unable to afford a diagnosis and treatment."

"Yes, Alpha."

"We shall help you." The other man spoke stroking his chin, "But first you have to do something."

Sleep with him?

That sounded like the only suggestion as I saw the way he was looking at me.

"Do you think he will fall for this?" Logan asked the man.

"Yes, he is kind yet ruthless and easygoing and wouldn't turn away a poor girl needing help."

Their conversation still left me confused.

"In exchange for your brother's cure." Logan spoke, "You are to be sent to the alpha king, and your mission there is to kill him."